{"type":"article","show_header_text":true,"header":"ARTICLES ABOUT THOMAS F. REILLY","query":"(per=\"REILLY, THOMAS F\") and tom!=\"Caption\" and tom!=\"Correction\" and tom!=\"List\" and tom!=\"Paid Death Notice\" and dsk!=\"Society\"","search_query":"(persons:\"REILLY, THOMAS F\") AND -type_of_material:\"Caption\" AND -type_of_material:\"Correction\" AND -type_of_material:\"List\" AND -type_of_material:\"Paid Death Notice\" AND -news_desk:\"Society\"","num_search_articles":"10","show_summary":true,"show_byline":true,"show_pub_date":true,"hide_thumbnails":false,"show_kicker":false,"show_title":false,"show_related_topics":true,"show_rad_links":true,"show_subtopics":true,"exclude_topics":"REILLY, THOMAS F","more_on_header":"MORE ON THOMAS F. REILLY AND:","alternate_index_subidx":"","show_thumbnails":true}

The attorney general of Massachusetts, Thomas F. Reilly, ordered officials in four communities on Friday to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples from outside the state. Clerks in Somerville, Worcester, Provincetown, and Springfield...

Same-sex couples living in states where laws ban gay marriage will not be able to marry in Massachusetts, the state's attorney general said Tuesday. Although the state's top court has ordered that gay and lesbian couples can begin marrying in...

The Massachusetts legislature on Monday approved a state constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage and create same-sex civil unions instead. The development promised to add to a pitched battle in a state that is under court order to...

At least 789 children and probably more than 1,000 have been sexually abused by 250 priests and other church workers in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston since 1940, according to a 16-month investigation by the Massachusetts attorney general...

Two New York-area bishops, Thomas V. Daily of Brooklyn and William Murphy of Long Island, came in for a strong share of blame in a report issued yesterday by the Massachusetts attorney general on the sexual abuse of children by priests in the Boston...

Criminal charges will not be filed against Cardinal Bernard F. Law or any other official of the Archdiocese of Boston for shuffling abusive priests from parish to parish or allowing them to remain in church positions, a spokesman for the state...

Those who wonder how Thomas F. Reilly, the Massachusetts attorney general, will conduct the criminal investigation into the sexual abuse scandal in the Boston Archdiocese might consider the case of Janet Downing. Ms. Downing had been stabbed 98...